Well, it seems like a grand vacation idea when Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are invited to boat downriver and visit'Tom's Uncle Silas, but every inch of the trip draws the boys deeper into a tangled web of dark deeds. Stolen diamonds; a mysterious stranger; vengeful manhunters; a long-lost twin; a vanished farm-hand...how does it all add up?

The question explodes when Tom Sawyer discovers a dead man in a shallow grave, and Uncle Silas confesses to a murder he didn't commit! Now Tom Sawyer must find and unmask the real killer--or Silas will be hanged and his family destroyed!

Well, it seems like a grand vacation idea when Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are invited to boat downriver and visit"Tom"s Uncle Silas, but every inch of the trip draws the boys deeper into a tangled web of dark deeds. Stolen diamonds; a mysterious stranger; vengeful manhunters; a long-lost twin; a vanished farm-hand...how does it all add up?

The question explodes when Tom Sawyer discovers a dead man in a shallow grave, and Uncle Silas confesses to a murder he didn"t commit! Now Tom Sawyer must find and unmask the real killer--or Silas will be hanged and his family destroyed!